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Chaim Gingold on Building Sim City & Simulation as Discourse We live in abstractions. What makes some better than others?

The story of #SimCity is the story of the world we live in—of the entanglement of computing, entertainment, design, & governance. And where it succeeded—and failed—teaches us how to navigate maps that become territories...

@chaimg.bsky.social on #HumansOnTheLoop:
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The Story: The World According to SimCity w/ Chaim Gingold - TechStuff Chaim Gingold is a game designer and author of the book Building SimCity: How to Put the World in a Machine, which explores the simulation games created by developer Will Wright. Gingold sits down…

"Who would've thought that a game about land zoning ... would be a big hit?"

Game designer and author of "Building SimCity," @chaimg.bsky.social, expands on the legacy of SimCity and the deeper cultural & technological significance of simulation games: @techstuffpod.bsky.social

I knew @chaimg.bsky.social's Building SimCity would be good, but I had no idea how much I would love the chapters that lead to the game. Doreen Gehry Nelson, history of cellular automata, chock-full of ideas that help me understand my own work:

😍Thanks, Linda! 🤩🤩🤩

cover art: a sinister tripod with an evil eye looms above the city

In an episode exclusively for our $5 patrons: @bobservo.bsky.social @atariarchive.org @chaimg.bsky.social & @philsalv.bsky.social carefully plan and build a podcast about SimCity2000 before the exodus occurs

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Shout out to our friends at @mitpress.bsky.social who donated all these incredible game history books for our fundraiser! We'll be raffling them off every hour during our Feb 22 charity stream!

(love seeing @jzagal.bsky.social @jesperjuul.bsky.social @chaimg.bsky.social and other friends in here!)

After 17 years of development, Caves of 1.0 is Out NOW!

Live and Drink.

I've long wondered how you scale the creation of this kind of content since it involves a lot of bespoke labor. Very exciting.

Figure 1 from the paper “Augmented Physics: Creating Interactive and Embedded Physics Simulations from Static Textbook Diagrams”

Cool automatic authoring of interactive, simulation based diagrams for textbooks.

Augmented Physics: Creating Interactive and Embedded Physics Simulations from Static Textbook Diagrams

Video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUgY...
Short explainer: tinyurl.com/2wfs74u3
Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2405.18614